Theresa May calls for General Election.
The Prime Minister will introduce a motion in the house on Wednesday 19th April 2017 to call for a General Election on 8th June 2017.
She will need a majority vote of two thirds of MPs in Parliament to override the Fixed Term Parliament Act.
The only UKIP MP is to quit the party.
Douglas Carswell, the only UKIP MP, who defected from the Conservative Party in 2014, is quitting UKIP to become an independent MP for Clacton.
He says the split is amicable and that he he is leaving because he feels his job is done at UKIP. Meaning that he is now certain that Brexit will be completed.
He is not crossing the floor of the Commons so no by-election will be needed.
House of Lords pass Brexit Bill allowing it to receive the Royal Assent.
The House of Lords have finally passed the Brexit Bill after making two changes to it which were then defeated by the House of Commons.
The Bill can now receive the Royal Assent allowing it to become an Act.
The result of the Act means that the Prime Minister can now trigger Article 50 to begin the official discussions with the EU concerning conditions for the UK to leave the EU.
The House of Lords had originally made two ammendments.
1. This concerned protecting the rights of EU citizens in the UK.
2. Which pushed for requiring a meaningful parliamentary vote on the final deal.
Both ammendments were defeated by MP’s in the House of Commons and were removed from the final Bill.
Vote in Parliament to respect the result.
MPs voted on Wednesday 7th Dec 2016 in the House of Commons 461 to 89 to respect the result of the Brexit referendum on 23rd June 2016 and invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty by 31st March 2017.